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R-.Rlfrms OAR SEAT No. 357,523. Patented Feb. 15, 1887.

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. ROBERT R. BEAsE, oF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, AssiCNoR OF voivE-HAI'F To HENRY RoBERTs, OF sAME PLACE.

CAR-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 357,623, dated February 15, 1887. I .Application filed January 2, 1886. Serial No. 187.501. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern.-

Beit known that I, ROBERT R. PEASE, of Hartford, Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Car-Seats, of which 5 the following description and claim constitute the specification, and which is illustrated by the accompanying three sheets of drawings.

This invention consists of mechanism by ro means of which the turning over of the back of a car-seat operates to reverse the inclina'- of the seat proper; and the invention is not onlya useful feature of a new car-seat, but may also be readily applied to seats already I constructed without it.

Figure l is a perspective view of a canseat with my invention attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a View of the wall end piece of the seat and its appurtenances when the back of the seat 2O is turned in one direction, and Fig. 3 is a View of the same when the back is turned in the other direction. Fig. 4 is a section on the line m n: of Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 5 is a section on the same line, but showing a bushing on one of the parts which is absent from the construction shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the hanger which is appurtenant to the wall end piece. The hanger which is appurtenant to the aisle end piece 3C is like the other7 except in being curved to correspond with the contour of the middle upright of that end piece. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of an angleiron, four of which are attached to the respective ends of the two side rails which connect the two end pieces of the seat. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a device, four of which are attached to the under side of the seat proper near its corners. Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a device, two of which are attached to the middle of the respective ends of the seat proper. The back of the car-seat and the seat proper are indicated in outline by the dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 3. l

A is the wall-hanger, and B is the aisle. hanger, while C and D are the arms upon which the back turns on the same pivots that support the hangers, respectively. Each hanger has the shoulder E, to be operated upon by the 5o adjacent arm, and also has the slot E', for the reception of the stud F, which 'stud preferably has an inclined plane on its upper side, to facilitate the withdrawal of the stud from the slot.- The same device that carries the stud F also preferably has two flanges, G and H, to be acted upon by the edges of the hanger at the same time that the slot acts upon the stud. The device of Fig. 8 is provided with the inclined plane I and the hook-like concave surface J, and is screwed to the under side of the 6o frame of the seat proper, near each of its corners, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. The device of Fig. 7'is indicated in Figs. 2 and 3 by the letter K wherever it is found in those ligures.

The mode of operation is as follows: The back of the seat and the seat proper being in the positions shown in Fig. 2, when the back is turnedv over, the arms Cv and -D are lifted thereby from the adjacent ends of theshoul- 7o ders E, and are allowed to fall upon the other ends of those shoulders, thus forcing the hangers to vibrate from the position indicated in Fign2 to that indicated in Fig. 3. That vibration acts upon the seat proper through its two pivotalv projections, one of which is separately shown in Fig. 9, and thus forces the inclined planes I, which are on the opposite side of the seat proper, to ride up upon the adjacent angle-ironsK until the surfaces Jrest upon those 8o irons, and also carries the other two surfaces J away from the angleeirons upon which they have rested, and thus allows the adjacent inclined planes I to slide down those angle-irons to the position shown in Fig. 3. Thus whenever the back of the seat is reversed in either direction the inclination of the seat proper is correspondingly changed.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the hangers A and B, 9o turning upon pivots at their upper ends and having slots in their lower ends, with the seat proper, provided with axial pivots for oscillating engagement with said slots, the parts being constructed and arranged in such a manner that the vibration of the hangers will cause the seat proper to oscillate, while allowing it to accommodate its inclination to its supports, regardless of the center of vibration of the hangers, all substantially as shown and deroo scribed.

Hartford, Connecticut, December 30, 1885.

ROBERT R. PEASE.

Witnesses:

ALBERT H. WALKER, WILLARD EDDY. 

